The act of a woman facing the end
Death
Ann Mead: The life and death of a nursemaid
She was young and angry.
Pregnant and condemned: Pleading the belly and the jury of matrons
1804: The fate of Ann Hurle, capitally convicted of fraud
William Hone on the case against Elizabeth Miller, who mistook arsenic for oatmeal
Even the rat-catcher said it was an easy mistake to make.
The Norfolk Murders, Part 2: Catherine Frarey and Frances Billing
The last women to be hanged in Norfolk
The Norfolk Murders, Part 1: Mary Wright
Arsenic in the plum cakes.
Ann Baker, hanged for stealing sheep (1801)
Why did she die when so many others received lighter sentences?
Mary Thorpe: First woman to be executed in the 19th century
Suffering from post-partum mental illness
Mary Morgan: “A Provincial Tragedy” (1805)
Why did George Hardinge condemn a 17-year-old servant to hang?
1802: Maria Davis and Charlotte Bobbett, who dropped a baby on Brandon Hill, Bristol
They may not have intended his death.
Ann Heytrey: hanged at Warwick for murdering her mistress
She could give no explanation for why she did it.
Hannah Palmer: Executed with her brother for the murder of his wife (1801)
A cruel and stupid crime.
Mother of 8 Ann Woodman, condemned to death for uttering forged banknotes
How did the authorities respond?
“A Warning to Thousands”: Sarah Lloyd
The wages of her sin were death
The D’Antraigues murders on Madame Gilflurt’s blog
Horrifying bloodshed at Barnes
The death of Frances Colpitts – Part 2
The outcome of the murder trial of Esther Hibner
The death of Frances Colpitts
How pauper Frances Colpitts came to be apprenticed to the Hibners.
The premature and lamented death of Sir Samuel Romilly
Grief-stricken after his wife’s fatal illness.
The Triple Obstetrical Tragedy: Sir Richard Croft
He could not recover from the death of Princess Charlotte
London Bill of Mortality 1743
29 people died of imposthume. No, me neither.
Eliza Fenning: Guest post at All Things Georgian
Innocent but proved guilty.
1817: Margaret Thatcher dies in Soho Square
She was shown compassion, but it was a pitiful demise.
1816: The knife murderer of Shabbington
A murderous attack. An inevitable execution.
1816: The year without a summer
Hunger, riots – and feats of imagination
1810: Annette Paris overdoses on laudanum
Traumatised, mentally disturbed and deeply unhappy
1803: A fatal duel at Chalk Farm (no romance involved)
Macho behaviour. Age-old story.